I have been in London for two weeks. I don’t speak English well at all. I have great difficulty in understanding people. In fact I don’t catch a thing they say. I find their pronunciation is 21 strange for me to understand, and they speak 22 that I can’t keep up with them. When I am on a bus, I ask the conductor something. He answers, but I don’t understand. So he says it slowly in a high 23, I still don’t understand it. Then he gets angry and goes away.
But I haven’t lost heart. I still enjoy 24 English. I must keep on working hard 25 it. I believe I’ll speak English well soon.
A. at B. too C. so fast D. voice E. speaking
Two hundred years ago people in the west did not know coffee or tea. They were 21to drink them because they thought coffee or tea could kill a person. Once the king of England decided to find out 22 it was true or not.
At that time there were two brothers in prison. They would be killed in a few days because they did wrong. The king said “ I shall let them live but they must drink coffee or tea to end of their 23. One brother must drink coffee and 24 must drink tea every day. ” And they followed the king's words.
They both lived many years. At last the elder brother 25 when he was eighty-three years old. The younger one died a few years later. After that people believe that coffee and tea were not bad to man.
A. died B. the other C. if D. afraid E. lives
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